Coordinating Minister For Political, Legal And Security Affairs: Handling Of Muslim Khilafatul Still Pays Attention To Human Rights

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD when met at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Monday (20/6/2022) (ANTARA/Gilang Galiartha)

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD stated that the handling of the Khilafatul Muslimin community organization which is considered to threaten the state ideology must still pay attention to human rights.

Mahfud emphasized that the purpose of the establishment of the Khilafatul Muslimin mass organization was to spread the caliphate ideology, and it was considered contrary to the Pancasila ideology.

"We will brush off the Khilafatul Muslimin if it threatens ideology, but we also pay attention to human rights because it is also the duty of the State to protect human rights," Mahfud said when met at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, reported by Antara, Monday, June 20.

The UN Human Rights Council said Indonesia had no record of human rights violations at the UN Human Rights Council, since 2020.

This was proven after his visit to the UN Human Rights Council and the UN High Commission for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland on Thursday (16/6).

"I just reported to the President, 41 countries have been under the spotlight, Indonesia has not been included, it's been 3 years in a row," he said.

According to Mahfud, these reports were never discussed at the Human Rights Council session but were only accommodated and then submitted to the Indonesian government for immediate completion.

As for the Khilafatul Muslimin, Polda Metro Jaya has arrested six Khilafatul Muslimin figures from various regions in Indonesia.

They are the supreme leader of the Khilafatul Muslimin, Abdul Qadir Hasan Baraja, who was arrested in Lampung on Tuesday (7/6).

Furthermore, the Metro Police have also arrested other Muslim Khilafatul figures with the initials AA, IN, F, and SW in Lampung, Medan and Bekasi. Meanwhile, the US, who played the role of education minister, was arrested in Mojokerto, East Java.